By Eric Seymour This second blog on our team’s research on corporate investor ownership of residential properties in New Jersey addresses the methods used and the techniques developed so far. While New Jersey provides a lot of property tax data for public and research use, combining records from different times and places into a single, [...]
By Ruth Winecoff. This is the first in a series of blogs regarding an ongoing clean energy research project generously supported by the New Jersey State Policy Lab. This project focuses on Property Assessed Clean Energy [...]
By Eric Seymour Corporate ownership of housing has been on the rise in the U.S. over the past decade, raising concerns about the impacts of this shift for both renters and would-be homebuyers. This trend encompasses large apartment buildings as well as smaller housing types like one-to-four family homes. There are multiple reasons for [...]
By Sania Murtuza, Vibha Venkataraman, Tai Vu, & Yao Sun, Ph.D. Guided by the theoretical and practical frameworks from the literature, the research team led efforts to specify neighborhoods in New Jersey [...]
By Ayse Akincigil. Many seniors in publicly subsidized housing need support services like chronic condition monitoring, medication management, and assistance with certain activities of living. Without such help, they risk [...]
By Yao Sun, Ph.D., Avanish Kulkarni, & Sania Murtuza. As the global emphasis on sustainability grows everyday— it is crucial to assess different alternatives for energy that does not require the burning of fossil fuels and nonrenewable energies in general [...]
By Yao Sun. The 2019 New Jersey Energy Master Plan: Pathway to 2050 mentioned that the state’s Clean Energy Act commitments include, “Developing a community solar program that allows more state residents to benefit from solar energy [...]
By William Irving. Data released earlier this month from the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey show that New Jersey now tops the list of states with the highest incomes in the country [...]
The New Jersey State Policy Lab held the 2023 Summer Internship presentations at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy on August 17, 2023. The eight summer interns each presented [...]
by James Barnett New Jersey is consistent in featuring at the top of the ranks for two different variables: effective real estate property tax rates and quality of K-12 education services.[1][2] These, unsurprisingly to most who reside here, are not unrelated in the slightest. Each of New Jersey’s whopping 599 school districts is funded to [...]
